Carlo Verdone

A seagull is caught by the black tide of a sinking petrol ship. She manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. Moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly.

Dir. Enzo D'Alò · With Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese, Melba Ruffo

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli

Three very different Italians travel to their hometowns on election day: Pasquale, a Southern immigrant living in Munich, finds a country far removed from the one he left behind; Roman civil servant Furio's relentless nitpicking threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo's journey is repeatedly interrupted by concerns about his grandmother's health.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Irina Sanpiter, Elena Fabrizi

Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Verónica Miriel, Mario Brega

A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Alessandro Benvenuti, Angelo Bernabucci

The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Veronica Pivetti

Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Eleonora Giorgi, Christian De Sica

A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Natasha Hovey, Florinda Bolkan

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Elisabetta Pozzi

Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, John Steiner

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.

Dir. Alberto Sordi · With Alberto Sordi, Carlo Verdone, Edy Angelillo

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Anita Caprioli

Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they decide to call his sister Livia. The three relatives travel the length and breadth of Tuscany to find their missing parent.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Sergio Rubini, Francesca Neri

Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca

Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Enrico Montesano, Carlo Verdone, Massimo Boldi

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Asia Argento, Aldo Maccione

When a neurotic hotel manager fires a maid for allegedly stealing a laptop, her son swears revenge and begins to expose his deepest secrets — only to regret it after falling for his daughter.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Silvio Muccino, Ana Caterina Morariu

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.

Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono

A man dedicated to religion and very faithful husband suddenly finds himself single. The new shop assistant in his shop will overwhelm his life.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Ilenia Pastorelli, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere

Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.

Dir. Luca Verdone · With Renato Pozzetto, Carlo Verdone, Silvia Annichiarico

Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a foreign singer named for a flower. In Brussels he meets Marguerite, an older chanteuse who interprets Jacques Brel and loves her yappy dog.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Andréa Ferréol

Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marco Giallini

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazăr

A comic movie divided in three episodes.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Geppi Cucciari

A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Paola Cortellesi, Tea Falco

A talent agent with a truly talentless client roster, Ercole Preziosi finds himself in trouble when a car crash injures his star comedian, so he turns to his young plucky driver to do stand-up duty.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Giuseppe Fiorello, Marit Nissen

Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches the tricks of the trade to his young disciple; in Russia, a clumsy dentist experiences the consequences of sex tourism.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Carlo Verdone, Sergio Castellitto, Riccardo Scamarcio

The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything, a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Regina Orioli, Ines Nobili

Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Rocco Papaleo, Anna Foglietta

A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Laura Chiatti, Angela Finocchiaro